The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was speedily deleted as promotional (G11) by Jimfbleak. Non-admin closure. Deor (talk) 12:47, 25 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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The administration of OC Public Libraries (Orange County Public Library) has requested that this article be deleted as soon as possible. The article was originally created by a committee that no longer plans to maintain the page and there are no plans to continue updating the site by any other OCPL staff memebers. The same information in the Wikipedia article can be found on the library's website: www.ocpl.org, and, therefore, OCPL administration feels that the outdated information on the Wikipedia article is a disservice to the community. If you require an official confirmation of the request for deletion, please contact Renee Welling, OC Public Libraries Marketing and eGov Manager at renee.welling@occr.ocgov.com . Thank you. Amd70 (talk) 21:49, 24 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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• Comment: So far the article looks a lot like spam and I'm surprised that it survived this long. For any curious, the sole source at the bottom of the article, the book about the OCPL, is a primary source according to this. I'll see if I can find anything else, but offhand I'm not seeing much out there. A lot of the awards are for specific people or are awards that would be too minor as far as Wikipedia goes to really give notability, either partial or completely. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 04:08, 25 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
• Redirect to Orange_County,_California#Arts_and_culture. If we ignore the blatant promotion that seems to have been going on here, the end result is that we really don't have that much coverage for this library system. Most of what I found was either trivial or local coverage. Most of the best coverage was by the LA Times, which is local but also primarily trivial "this branch opened, this person is going to come here, etc" sort of coverage that falls under local interest sort of things. Nothing that is really in-depth. When it comes to book sources I found a lot of passing mentions such as this one and this one, but these are more in passing. I do want to note that I got some false positives, as it seems that there are several other states that have library systems by this name. Ultimately I can't find enough coverage to really warrant this library system having an article. I'm impressed by the system, but ultimately this just isn't a notable enough PL system to really warrant an article. If we do redirect and merge, given that there are at least 3-4 different library systems by this name, it might be a good idea to create state specific names such as Orange County Public Library (California) or Orange County Public Library (Florida). I might try to tag this as a speedy because of the lack of notability and the blatant spam that is on the page. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 04:22, 25 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.